Location
Newcastle upon Tyne | United Kingdom
Job description
This post is full year and full time, 37 hours per week.
We're seeking to appoint a skilled individual that has a working knowledge of health and safety. Your role will be to provide professional and efficient caretaking and maintenance across our school premises, being flexible to changing routines whilst working well as part of a team.
You'll be responsible for routine maintenance across the site, whilst also undertaking minor repair works too. Experience of working within a similar environment would be preferred to help ensure the smooth running of our school site.
We are looking for someone who has:
- The ability to work well as part of a wider site team, but also the ability to work individually using your own initiative.
- Knowledge and trade experience of building maintenance work, for example; plumbing, carpentry, electrics.
- Good ICT and administration skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills to effectively liaise with contractors.
Benfield School is a fully inclusive 11-16 school it has a distinct ethos with strong sense of support and loyalty. Excellent relationships between students and staff and a purposeful learning environment is evident in lessons and around the modernised site. With this foundation, students have a strong platform to be confident, happy and are able to achieve their aspiration.
Our school is one of seven primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools. At the heart of our Trust is the aim to nurture, educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East.
In return we offer:
- Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across the trust.
- A team of hardworking, dedicated and friendly staff where everyone is valued.
- The benefit of working in a highly collaborative multi academy trust.
- Membership of the Local Government Pensions Scheme which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
- Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government etc.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), delivered by Health Assured – the UK and Irelands leading wellbeing provider.
- Good public transport links via Tyne and Wear Metro and road links from the A19 and A1058 Coast Road
Interested?If you would like to join us and feel you could thrive here, then please read the accompanying job description and person specification and complete an application form by clicking ‘apply now’ no later than midnight on Sunday 24th March 2024.
NEAT is committed to safer recruitment practice and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required as part of pre-employment checks. For shortlisted candidates, we will conduct an online search as part of our screening.
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